hamtron5000
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- Comment on am i an idiot: selfhosting a Signal Proxy and/or a Tor Relay 3 months ago:
maybe i can incorporate a 501c(3) and run it as an NGO, ha! but, seriously, fair point. i have heard both horror stories (SWAT teams bursting in in the middle of the night, etc) and bore-er stories (ran an exit node for 3 years, nothing ever happened). i guess i’m worried, and that worry maybe implies that i should not do it just yet. Signal proxy might be the way to go.
- Comment on am i an idiot: selfhosting a Signal Proxy and/or a Tor Relay 3 months ago:
yes, the instructions are definitely doable - i am just wondering if there are recommended home network hardening steps that one might recommend. honestly, my worry is probably more related to the Tor exit relay. i really want to do one, but i also do not want legal trouble. maybe i’ll start with a bridge, sigh. but thank you! no worry about tone, text is tough.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
dang, approximately where in GJ? that’s where i’m located and i’d love to get some inspiration. i see some stuff like that in Fruita sometimes.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
100%
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
oh dang, shutters! i forgot they’re not just decorative.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
i might do something similar when we eventually replace everything in our house with electric stuff, but for now we have a gas-powered water heater. i am saving for a full solar installation on our roof, though, which would power everything. solar is the one energy-producer we have here in absolutely wild abundance.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
that’s where i saw that video! appreciated.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
i’d love to move, but i want to improve where i am while i’m here. we have some plans for trees and sunflowers or amaranth on that side, but i think it’s a “both/and” situation rather than an “either/or” for me.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
yes, that actually is my very long term strategy, but the trees are not in place yet. my wife and i had a permaculture analyst suggest plants that produce edible foods for our area, so there are some plans for that and maybe also sunflowers or amaranth to do a natural block. but for today, i’m thinking awnings.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
yeah, i’m thinking (tentatively) about trying to get some non-plastic, manually retractable cloth ones. then i can leave them fully extended for the hot-as-balls summer and dial them back for other seasons.
- Comment on installing awnings? 3 months ago:
i wanted awning before that video, but that video made me start pricing out my options! ha.
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- Comment on DIY book scanner project 10 months ago:
DIY book scanner project part 6, “Distribution”, might have a few leads on how to do this. annas-blog.org/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archiv…
- Comment on What's Up? 10 months ago:
dang, cloth diapering is no joke. good for you!
- Comment on What's Up? 10 months ago:
To answer my own question, a couple things. Today my wife and I mounted two cat shelves to give our boys a way to get to a high and inaccessible place - my wife got a couple of carpet squares from her workplace and glued them onto two shelves, which we mounted today. Image
i also recently built a really basic compost bin. baby steps, right?
- Submitted 10 months ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 10 months ago:
just wanted to update that i’ve added PiHole and Unbound DNS to my running stuff. thinking about doing a Wireguard VPN now… but that’s a 2024 project now.
good night and happy new year!
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 10 months ago:
i am not sure - that’s why i installed Rustdesk, which is remote help tool. I’m IT in my daily life for an organization and also IT in my personal life for friends and family, so it’s helpful to have something like TeamViewer for personal use.
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 10 months ago:
lol, fair. we did Thanksgiving this year so Christmas is at my mom’s. ha!
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 10 months ago:
i have two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers running the latest LTS version.
machine the first: - Taskwarrior - Taskserver - Docker and Docker Compose - local media and stuff on a 2TB NAS
machine the second: - Docker and Docker compose - Jitsi Meet server - Rustdesk server
coming soon: - PiHole - Unbound DNS - Plex (maybe) - Mealie (possibly with a dedicated ancient iPad that will live in the kitchen) - BirdNET-Pi
also possibly a home weather station built out of a Raspberry Pi 4B that is on order; i love the idea of having one of these in my backyard to track our microclimate.
- Submitted 10 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 43 comments
- Comment on weekly - er, monthly? - What's Up? 1 year ago:
answering my own question, i’m snagging a couple of old mountain bikes from a coworker and her husband who don’t use them. going to fix them up a bit for myself and my wife, maybe make mine into a low-end bikepacking rig. i like that idea; we’ll see how much stuff i can use from my own boneyard and what, if anything, i’ll have to buy. good times.
- Submitted 1 year ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on Weekly What's Up? 1 year ago:
to answer my own question, i’m installing some rainwater catchment barrels at my house hopefully this week. all but one (we have four) were sourced from local folks. once these are installed, i have purchased a zero-pressure drip irrigation system and am going to try to have that installed before the first big frost, usually about two or three weeks from now where i live. there won’t be any water in it this season, but it will be ready to go in the spring - or so i hope!
- Submitted 1 year ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on DIY Show and Tell! 1 year ago:
lol, absolutely! it’s a combination of this method (deep mulching, the Ruth Stoat method) and this method (lasagna mulching or lasagna composting).
what we’re doing is laying down a double layer of cardboard, topping it with 3+ inches of wood chips, adding nitrogen in the form of grass clippings and, later in the year, leaves; and adding some manure, then seeding that mix with cover crops.
on the other side of our yard, we’re going to do a more traditional lasagna method because we’re running low on wood chips. this will be cardboard, an inch of woodchips, manure, and nitrogen. this will also be seeded.
in the spring, when our cover crops have bloomed, we’ll chop and drop them where they are, adding more organic material to the soil we’re building. finally, in that mixture, we’ll plant the native wildflowers and food crops we’re interested in growing and harvesting.
- Comment on DIY Show and Tell! 1 year ago:
Image i’ve posted about this before, but here’s our current progress on deep lasagna mulching our front yard. we just had an apple tree put in, and i have seeded the grass clipping-covered area of this part of our yard with cover crops. laughing wife for scale.
